Antiseptic pocket-cuspidor.



No. 685,053. Patented Oct. 22, |90I. J. S. LAMOND.

ANTISEPTIG POCKET CUSPIDOR.

[Application led May 14, 1901.\

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. LAMOND, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

ANT|sEPT|cr PocKETcusPlDoR.

srncrrrcATIoN forming part of rettete Patent No. 685,053, atea october 22, 1901. ipsa-snot nea-iras' i4. 1901. sean No. 60,187. (No maar.)

pocket sputum-receptacle that will be simple, durable, cheap, and easily carried about on the person Without great inconvenience.

A further object is to provide an article of merchandise of practical utility to the rich and poor that may help to eradicate the too common practice of expectorating in public or private places or conveyances, which is thevproliic source of many ills.

My invention consists of a box having a lid in which there is a sliding door or shut-` ter. Two spindles are mounted to turnin the Walls of the box, and eachof the spindles is provided with a milled wheel, which is secured to the end of the spindle projecting outside of the box. An absorbent medicated material or fabric is uncoiled from one spindle, coming from the top thereof down and under and onto the other spindle by the manipulation of one of said milled wheels. The slidingv lid in the cover is opened by means of a knob, which opening is above said absorbent material just where'it passes under and onto one of said spindles. When desired, the absorbent material is cut across and that portion which has been used and is wound upon the spindle is removed with facility and burned or otherwise destroyed.- In the drawingssimilarletters of reference indicate like parts in the dierent figures.

Figure l is an isoinetrical View of my receptacle. Fig. 2 is a plan of the lower half thereof, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal crosssection on the line Z Z of Fig. l.

A in the drawings represents the receptacle; B, the absorbent material; B', the uncoiling-roll; B2, the ceiling-roll. i

The box consists of the lid or cover a and the lower or body portion of the box a. In the lid or cover a there is an opening b to allow the sputum to pass into the box. Said openings is provided with' a siding nd b', V

which is horizontally movable in the slides c for the purpose of opening and closing the door in the lid. The sliding lid b/ is provided with a knob e, which is connected Vthereto and moves in a slot d, provided in the cover a for thatpurpose. i

The absorbent cloth B is'wound from the spindle k to the spindle h' as the absorbent material below the opening b in the cover ct is utilized. Both of saidrspindles h and c are mounted in the body of the box to rotate in bearings provided for them. The centralportion o-f the spindle h is flattened out or oval in shape, and on the central portion of the spindle lo are connected prongs to engage the cloth orabsorbent material. Openings through the central portion of said spindles may be adopted as another means of retaining the absorbent material on said rolls; but I prefer to have the prongs on the spindle k and to have the spindle h flattened out or oval in shape.

The uncoiling of the absorbent material on the spindle la is regulated by the spring n,

which presses against the friction-roll Z,which i is secured to one end of the spindle k', and f the uncoiling is also controlled somewhat byv the spring mand the ratchet-wheel p, which is secured ,to one end of the spindle h'. The

springm, engaging the ratchet-wheel p, pre- Y vents the absorbentmaterial from uncoiling -from the spindle h' or the coiling-roll B2. i

The body of the box is provided with thev slots f and f for the purpose of allowing the I The y removal of the spindlesfrom the box.

spindles may be operated while the box vis tion, and having rounded corners, so that lit may be easily inserted or taken from the pocket of a coat or other garment.

, With this description of myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is=- `In an antiseptic pocket-cuspidor, the comf-- bination with the box A, consisting of the I proposeto manufacture V roo lid a, having an opening therein and a sliding shutter to open and closethe same, and

the lowerprtion'a', having holes Ain the sides thereof, of two spindles mounted in 5 the lower portion of the box and projecting through said holes in the sides thereof, milled wheels secured to the projecting. end of said spindles, and absorbent material adaptedto l be Wound from the upper portion of one spinzo dle to the lower portion of the other spindle,

other, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 4in presence of two witnesses.

JOI-IN S. LAMOND.

Witnesses: v

JOHN` F. KEER, ROBERT HAWORTH. 

